This winning bedroom boasts a sophisticated layering of texture, color, and most importantly, its owners’ favorite things. Carey McGuire Warman ascribes to the style philosophy, “design with what you love.” “I think if you design with things you love, they will always work. The trick is,” says the Kentuckian, “you just have to be picky about what you choose to love.” Warman wins for this smartly designed small space that also provides ideal strategies for a rental apartment.

1st Honorable Mention

1st Honorable Mention

The room is flooded with layers of textures, mobile and modern design choices. “I love adding texture. Enough to create intrigue, but not enough to create distraction,” Warman says. The hard wood floors beneath an animal skin rug, the faux fur coverlet on a modern platform bed, the Algues wall treatment, the sleek metal of the Bertoia chair, and the traditional elements of the dresser, candlesticks and multi-faceted mirror, are delightful examples of a modern mix creating a truly dreamy bedroom that can change in time with the owner’s moods.